Vegetable-cutter.



A. E. MOG'REW. VEGETABLE CUTTER. APPLICATION P'ILED NOV. 30, 1908.

952,625, Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

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ilk/2Z3 2' attorneys ALBERT E. MOGREW, F SCOTTSBURG, INDIANA.

VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

Application filed November 30, 1908. Serial No. 465,007.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. a citizen of the United States, residingat Scottsburg, in the county of Scott and State of Indiana,have'invented a new and useful Vegetable-Cutter, of which the followingis a specification.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a vegetable cutterin which the vegetable to be cut will be chopped into pieces of regularsize.

The cutter embodying the invention belongs, broadly speaking, to thatclass in which movable knives pass through slots in a stationary member,and it is the object of the invention to so relatively arrange themovable blades and fixed member that the vegetable to be cut will bechopped into pieces of equal and substantially regular size.

A further object of the invention is to provide in connection with acutter of the class described, a conveyer for carrying off the choppedmaterial and in so arranging this conveyer that the chopped vegetableswill be positively directed on to the conveyer and will thereforenotcollect or clog beneath the same and will not be wasted.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional viewthrough a vegetable cutter constructed in accordance with the inventiontaken in a plane from front to rear. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of thesaid cutter, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3-3of Fig. 1, the cutting cylinder being shown in top plan.

As shown in the drawings, the cutter mechanism embodying my invention ismounted in a suitable frame which is indicated in general by thereference character A, and the operating mechanism thereof is inclosedin a suitable casing including side walls'5, a vertical rear wall 6, aninclined front wall 7, and a top wall 8 which is a continuation of therear, wall 6. and extends at. its forward end forwardly above the frontwall 7, the upper edge of the said front wall 7, terminating short ofthe said top wall 8 so as to provide an opening 9 through which thevegetables to be cut may be introduced into the casing.

An elevator or conveyer casing 10 extends rearwardly upwardly at anangle from the lower end of the casing above described trained overrollers, only one of the rollers MoGnnw, being shown and being indicatedby the numeral 12, this roller being journaled for rotation within themain casing at the lower end thereof.

and mounted for travel in the said casing 10 is an endless belt conveyer11 which 18 A deflector member in the form of a transverse cleat 13 isfixed upon theinclined front wall 7 of the main casing of the cutter andthe upper face of this cleat is inclined as clearly shown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawings so as to direct the cut material on to the upper stretch ofthe conveyer apron 11, the object of such a construction being toobviate waste of the cut material andto prevent clogging of the samebeneath the conveyer.

The cutting mechanism of the invention consists, broadly speaking, of astationary slotted bar and rotating cutters which pass through the slotsin the stationary bar which is indicated by the numeral 14, the slotsbeing indicated at-15, the said strip being secured to the inner face ofthe said inclined front wall 7 of the casing and projecting at an anglefrom the sald wall of the casing,

inwardly.

J ournaled in suitable bearings 16 upon the frame A and extending at itsends through the side walls 5 of the main casing of the device is a'shaft 17 and the shaft carries a roller 18. Secured upon the shaft 17 ateach end of the roller 18 is a circular head 19 and secured at theirends to the peripheries of the heads are knives 20 which areequi-distantly spaced around the circumference of the open cylinder. Thecutting edges of the knives 20 are presented in the direction ofrotation of the cylinder and are so arranged as to pass closely to theedge of the bar 14 and at right angles with respect thereto. Securedupon eachof the knives 20 and projecting at right angles therefrom andradially from the cylinder are several knives 22. The cylinder abovedescribed rotates in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 1 of thedrawings, and the cutting edges of the blades 22 are presented in thedirection of rotation of the cylinder. The bar 14 extends with its upperface in a horizontal plane substantially coincident with the axis of thecylinder carrying the knives 22 and as the cutting edges of the blades22 are radial with respect to the cylinder and the bar 14 is located asabove described, the cutting edges of the blades, as they pass throughthe slots in the blades 14, will be substantially parallel.

As clearly "shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the blades 22 are soarranged or positioned upon the cylinder by which they are carriedthatthe will pass, during the rotation of the cylinder, each between twoof the blades 14.

In operation, vegetables such as pumpkins or the like are fed into thecasing through the opening 9 in the front thereof and are forced by theblades 22 down against the blades 14:, the two sets of bladescooperating to chop the vegetables into pieces of substantially uniformsize and shape.

In order that the cylinder may be driven rapidly so as to efl'ectuallyperform the chopping operation, a pulley 23 is fixed upon the shaft 17at one end thereof and is designed for the attachment of a drive belt(not shown).

What is claimed is In a machine of the class described a casing providedin one wall with an opening for the introduction of material, a shaftjournaled in the casing near the said opening, a roller upon the shaft,ahead fixed at each end of the roller, a bar fixed upon the said wall ofthe casing below the opening therein and in a plane with the shaft, the

knives extending at right angles thereto and arranged for passagethrough the slits in the said bar, the cutting edges of the knives beingin advance of the cutting edges of the blades carried thereby, and thebars being of a width substantially equal to the distance between itsfree inner edge and the said roller upon the shaft, the said knivesbeing so spaced from the surface of the said roller as to permit of thecut material falling between the knives and the roller and into thecasing.

- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoailixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT E. MGGREW. \Vitnesses:

WADE BAILEY, R. K. BRADFIELD.

